Ancient History Page

2008-04-02

Egad, over a month since the last update. I have been working behind the scenes on a site re-design, but really it is past time I posted the links people have sent me.

Added The Wendish Campaign to the Rhine Tribunal, and its House Rules Rules to the appropriate page.
Updated the Danish page, courtesy of Pelle Kofod
Added The Fall and Rise of Exeter (a.k.a. the Faroe Saga) to the Stonehenge Tribunal, and its House Rules where they belong.

2008-02-24

Added Glen Garech Covenant to the Loch Leglean Tribunal page.
Fixed some broken links

2008-02-18

Added link to Grand Tribunal 2008 to the page, and to the interactive page for good measure.
Andrew Gronosky's Ars Magica Page is, finally, working again.
Removed link to Sagakeeper from interactive page. Sagakeeper was great while it lasted... but it's been dead a long time.

2007-12-15

Two small updates to the FAQ

2007-11-11

Very minor FAQ update to correct one URL
Updated main page and appropriate FAQ entries to feature the new Ars Magica fanzine, Sub Rosa.

2007-11-10

The Redcap is not dead! Just far behind on maintenance. My peronal Ars Magica page is currently down due to a problem with my Internet Service Provider, but it will be back up as soon as they get their act together.

Added:

Covenant of Reservo Scientia (Iberia)
Covenant of Mons Obscurus (Stonehenge)

Updated:

On the Miscellaneous Links page, D20 Ars Magica was updated to point to its new location. Thanks to the maintainer for letting me know.
Updated the Swedish page, compliments of Michael Geller. (This is another update I've been meaning to add for months, since July 1 in this case).

2007-10-29

Updated the Polish page, thanks to Macko Kowlaski. It should be pointed out that Macko sent me the text back on June 28, but I had technical difficulties with the Polish character set (which uses ISO Latin-2) and did not figure out how to convert it to HTML until months later.

2007-06-23

Updated the text of the main Project: Redcap pages in several languages:

Catalan, courtesy of Xavier Requejo
Danish, courtesy of Pelle Kofod
English
German, courtesy of Pitt Murmann
Italian, courtesy of Michele Agostinelli
Japanese, courtesy of Takashi Miyamoto
Norwegian, courtesy of Leif Olav Jøsang
Spanish, also courtesy of Xavier Requejo
Swedish, courtesy of Michael Geller

Other updates:

Removed the link-submitting instructions. They were too wordy. Much shorter instructions are now included on the main page.
Added a link to Eric Pommer's House Rules on the House Rules page. Duh. Thanks to Steve S. for pointing that out.
Deleted the link to MythicEurope.com from the Miscellaneous page. It no longer contains anything Ars-Magica related, and I'm just as glad, because it was a violation of Atlas Games' trademark. (The policy of Project: Redcap is not to censor anything; if it's about Ars Magica, I'll list it here, but I did point out to the maintainer that he really should have asked Atlas Games' permission to use the name.)

2007-05-26

Two new Saga links on the Japanese Index page; also, consolidated all the Japanese pages into one for simplicity. Thanks to Takashi Miyomoto.
Insula Maledictus (Loch Leglean Tribunal) is back online, at a new location. Thanks to the maintainer for re-hosting the site and notifying me.

2007-05-16

Uploaded a revised Japanese Index page, thanks to Takashi Miyomoto.
Added a new covenant, Aquae Arcanum, to the French-Language covenants page.

2007-04-14

We have our second addition to the House Rules page: now my own house rules do not look quite so lonely. Additional submissions would be most welcome. To be clear, even if your site is already listed on Project: Redcap, I would like to put a separate link on the House Rules page (so your site could be listed twice). Just follow the usual submission procedure.

The following pages are now working and are off the endangered list:

Pax Studiorum (Greater Alps)
Finn Dúnn (Hibernia)

I notice they are both hosted in the same domain, so probably some intermittent server outage is to blame. Also the URLs seem to have changed slightly (the old links automatically redirected to the new addresses), so I've updated the links to point directly to the new locations.

Thanks to the maintainer for letting me know the sites were still live. They certainly were invisible to me for several days, but they're fine now.

The other members of the endangered list were not so lucky.

Isle of Innish (Hibernia) - 404. Link deleted.
Birsay Brough (Loch Leglean) - Server not responding. This counts as "missing in action," not "dead," so I am leaving the link in place a while longer (2 weeks at least).
Sine Nomine (Loch Leglean) - 404. Link deleted.
Insula Maledictus (Loch Leglean) - 404. Link deleted.
Negrath (Loch Leglean) - 404. Link deleted.
Concilium Caviali (Normady) - 404. Link deleted.
des Arbes (Provençcal) - 404. Link deleted.
Strohaus (Rhine) - 404. Link deleted.
Blackmountain (Stonehenge) - Server not found. Link deleted.
Northumbria Covenant (Stonehenge) - 404. Link deleted.
Aqua Tremula (Stonehenge) - Server not found. Link deleted.
Epithranoi (Thebes) - 403 (access forbidden). I don't know quite what to make of that; probably the maintainer made a mistake and uploaded the page as a read-only file. Since the site has been on the endangered list for over a month and no one has contacted me, I am going to presume it is abandoned and delete the link. If anyone later finds it has returned, please let me know.

2007-03-04

Moved all "recent" developments that occurred B.G. (Before Gronosky) to the Ancient History page.
Added The London Chapter to the (English) Stonehenge Tribunal page.
Slightly updated the definitions of the jargon terms HR and RAW.
Really learned how to use the automated link-checking program linklint. A large number of problems were unconvered. For now, my priority is on straightening out the covenants. By Tribunal, the following covenants are on the endangered list:
- Greater Alps
  - Pax Studiorum
- Hibernia
  - Finn Dún
  - Isle of Innish
- Loch Leglean
  - Birsay Brough
  - Sine Nomine
  - Insula Maledictus
  - Negrath
- Normandy
  - Concilium Caviali
- Provençal
  - Des Arbes
- Rhine
  - Strohaus
- Stonehenge
  - Blackmountain
  - Northumbria Covenant
  - Aqua Tremula
- Thebes
  - Epithranoi

2007-02-27

Added Nocturnus to the German Covenants page.
Added The Appuldurcombe House to the Stonehenge Tribunal page.

2007-02-04

Updated the address and description of Covenant [namenwedstrijd!], now Wittemeer (a Dutch-language covenant)
Updated the Ars Magica FAQ.

2007-01-16

Added The Covenant of the Spear to the Levant Tribunal page.

2007-01-04

Added a link to the Ars Magica Point-Cost Calculator on the Miscellaneous page.

2006-12-11

Fixed an HTML formatting error on the Mailing List Jargon page.
Added the term TMRE to the Jargon page

2006-11-15

Removed covenant of Broch de Teine Eun from the Italian-language covenants page, at the author's request
Updated description of the Saga of Palatini (Roman Tribunal) to note the Saga is now inactive.
Updated the Ars Magica FAQ

2006-10-28

Added French description to Aesculetum Interae Pedes, which is a French covenant.

2006-10-15

Created a whole Redcap category for house rules. Not much is there yet...
Added an English summary of the German covenant Reconquista (Iberian Tribunal).
Added Covenant [namenwedstrijd!] to the Dutch-language page
Added Aesculetum Interae Pedes to the French-language covenants page.
Introduced new Submission guidelines to help new links get added more smoothly (with fewer questions from the Redcap).

2006-10-05

Added Ars Sicula to the Italian-language covenants page.

2006-10-01

Obtained (and learned to use) a link-checking program. This should cut down on the number of dead links users find and report. If you still find dead links, by all means let me know, and thank you to everyone who has helped by reporting dead links. As it turns out, the program found no broken links that hadn't already been reported (except for a couple on the "ancient history" page).
Removed the dead links from the "ancient history" page.
New covenant site:
- Reconquista (a German-language covenant site/Wiki)

2006-09-24

Fixed mis-typed name of the Trials of Novgorod page.
Added description to Trials of Novgorod covenant (thanks to the author).
Deleted last week's problem links from the Novgorod page. Nature's Teeth seems to be back online but the others are gone.

2006-09-17

Added links to rpg.net on the front page
Problems with several Novgorod links:
- Animus Silvae
- Covenant of the Broken Bridge
- Natures Teeth
- The Winters Spire
New Novgorod link: Trials of Novgorod

2006-07-09

Removed dead German-language covenants links:
- Accelerata
- Chrysokrata
- Silva Gregorii
- Unbekannt (site is still live, but not Ars-Magica related any more)
- Ante Casu
Removed dead German miscellaneous links:
- Sodales.org
- Storyteller's Diary

2006-06-04

Added Links:
- Profundus (Stonehenge)
- Vida's Tear (Novgorod)

2006-04-09

Updated Link:
- Official Ars Magica Archive
Deleted:
- Kevin Hassal's Story Archive
- Iberian Tribunal LARP
- Product History page
- Secret Secretorum

Also, the link to Eric Pommer's House Rules seems to be working again, so it's off the endangered list.

2006-03-13

Posted a minor update to the Ars Magica FAQ
Deleted link to Ars Magica Moldensis. The maintainer contacted me to inform me the site was no longer online.

2006-03-05

New listings:
- MythicEurope.com
Changed Listings:
- Renamed Andrew Gronosky's Ars Magica Site (formerly known as Ordo Miscellanea) and updated the description.
Problems with:
- Kevin Hassal's Story Archive
- Iberian Tribunal LARP
- The Official Ars Magica Archive
- Ars Magica Moldensis
- Eric Pommer's House Rules
- Product History page
- Secret Secretorum

2006-02-06

Changed listings:
- New address for Severn Temple covenant (Stonehenge)

2005-12-13

Yes, another update after two days. Don't expect that to happen again any time soon.

Fixed problems:
- Address of La Comunidad de Ars Magica (Spanish language links) updated
- Actually uploaded the new French covenants page, which had got left out by mistake. Draco Maris should be on the page now.
New Listing:
- A Tale of Two Covenants (Stonehenge Tribunal)

2005-12-11

We have some new updates.

The FAQ has been updated with new information on the mailing lists and online discussion forum
Deleted a number of dead links:
- Al Arama (Levant)
- The Rest is Silence (Alternate Settings)
- Esgaur Dyffryn (Stonehenge)
- Fall of Heaven (Stonehenge)
- San Graal (Iberia)
- Animus Silvae (Novgorod)
- Book of Days and Nights (Stonehenge)
- Deleted links to two specialty mailing lists that no longer exist
Problems with:
- One Step Toward Infinity (Provencal)
- Thorendon (Provencal)
- Ars Magica FTP Archive (miscellaneous pages)
New listings:
- des Arbes (Provcencal)
- La Comunidad de Ars Magica (Spanish language)
- Draco Maris (French language covenants)
- Ars Magica Player Finder (interactive pages)
- Net Wizard's Grimoire (interactive pages)
Changes:
- An t-Earreach saga (Loch Leglean)
- Fabulae Noctis (Italian language miscellaneous)

9/12/05

I have finally recognised the reality that I don't have time to do updates to Project Redcap. I've been in charge for nearly ten years (omigodhasitreallybeenthatlong), and so it's time for me to move on. It's probably better for the main fan linking site not to be run by the game's line editor, anyway.

I'm handing over the reins to Andrew Gronosky, who has been doing a good job of looking after the FAQ. I wish him well in his new role tramping the roads of Mythic Europe, while I retire to a wealthy covenant and enjoy fine wines. Or something, anyway.

Ancient History

Earlier developments on the project.

Ouch. Sorry about that delay; it really is far too long. In my defence, I've moved house twice and had lousy net access.

Next up, cleaning out some dead links. I have a few emails telling me about some.

I've still not had time to get link checking working again, so if you find a dead link on the site, please let me know.

Back to normal, ish. I switched my computer to Ubuntu Linux, which is much better than the distribution I was using before, but broke my link-checking program. Until I can fix or replace it, which will require free time, I can't automatically check links. So, just manual updates for a while.

Deleted the links to Albus Corvus, Renaissance Ars Magica, Soporis Serpens, Myrydonn, and Flamands du Rhone.

Deleted the links to Library of Evremere, Tonitruorum Fortium, Harlacht, Malenstrom, Pomona, Aequitas, Flamma Aeterna, and Helen Steele's Ars Magica Page.

Problems with Sanctuary Apocrypha (Timothy, where is this page now?), Albus Corvus, Soporis Serpens, Myrydonn, Renaissance Ars Magica, Ars Fantastica, Flamands du Rhone, and Strona Grupy Arm-pl.

Just under five months... I'm really sorry about that. I've now fixed the problems I was having with software, and I still have internet access in my flat, so maybe things really will get a bit more regular now. I'm almost certainly not going to be able to update every week at the moment, but I'll try to manage at least once per month.

Deleted the links to Non Metuens, Pendragon, Perfugium Aquilonis, Silberwolf, Arutha, Tumulus Tortilis, L'Alliance de Guernac, Kermadem, Seekers, La Tour Maudit, Albus Lotus, Celidon, and Vent du Feu.

Problems this time with The Library of Evremere, Tonitruorum Fortium, Harlacht, Malenstrom, Negrath, Sine Nomine, Sanctuary Apocrypha, Animus Lupi, Pomona, Aequitas, The Rest is Silence, Flamma Aeterna, Fight Simulator & Instagrog, Helen Steele's Ars Magica page, and Chrysokrata.

Problems this week with San Graal, Pendragon, Non Metuens, Calebais, Silberwolf, Pomona, Perfugium Aquilonis, Arutha, Domus Prawlus, Tumulus Tortilis, L'Alliance de Guernac, Kermadem, Ao-Lai, Silva Gregorii, La Tour du Maudit, Albus Lotus, Celidon, Seekers, Petra Bugati, and Ager Nebulosa. Quite a lot of these look like 'page has gone away' problems, so next time around I'll probably have to delete a lot of links, alas.

Removed the link to Sturmdank, as the maintainer has told me it is about to disappear permanently.

Deleted the links to Ambrosia Scottia, Scholae Sagittarii and El Heraldo de Hermes.

Problems this week with Ambrosia Scottia, Scholae Sagittarii, Ars Magica Moldensis, Kermadem (site under reconstruction, so this may be temporary), Drevlan's Ridge, Ars Magica 2000, and El Heraldo de Hermes.

Problems this time with Ambrosia Scottia, Scholae Sagittarii, Ars Magica Moldensis, Via Nova, and El Heraldo de Hermes.

Oh dear, more than a month between updates. I blame the fact that I moved house in the middle.

Problems this week with The Rest is Silence, The Library of Evremere, and La Alianza de Shadowlands.

Problems this week with Castalia, Drevlan's Ridge, Tarn Crag, and Ars Magica 2000.

Problems this week with Coyotewalker's Ars Magica Page, Tarn Crag, and Chrysokrata.

Removed the links to L'Etoile D'Argent, Draconis (German), Dark Provencal/Englands Auferstehung (German), and Opowiesci z Mitycznej Europy (Polish).

Problems this week with Ravenpeak, Tintagel PBeM, Esgair Dyffryn, and Tarn Crag.

Problems this week with L'Etoile d'Argent, Tintagel PBeM, Draconis, Dark Provencal/Englands Auferstehung, Opowiesci z Mitycznej Europy, and Tarn Crag.

Problems this week with L'Etoile d'Argent, Tintagel PBeM, Ars Magica Character Generator (this has moved; does anyone know the current link?), Draconis, Opowiesci z Mitycznej Europy, Tarn Crag, Isle of Innish, Teml ar Fryn, and Dark Provencal/Englands Auferstehung.

Removed the links to Pierre Fond, Penn ar Mor, and Stuart Kenny's Ars Magica page.

Problems this week with Scopulus Vocis, Calebais, Attacus Cynthia, and Proditor.

Problems this week with Pierre Fond, Penn ar Mor, and Stuart Kenny's Ars Magica Page.

Problems this week with Pierre Fond, Penn ar Mor, Stuart Kenny's Ars Magica Page, Raoul's Japanese Ars Magica pages, Ager Nebulosa and Petra Bugati.

Removed the link to Caer Bwganodd, which is looking for a new home. Also removed the link to Niflheim, which has been problematic for about a month.

Problems this week with Machiavelli Games, Raoul's Japanese pages, and Albus Lotus.

Problems this week with icq.com, Raoul's Japanese Ars Magica pages, Caer Bwganodd, Thrakaia, Albus Lotus, and Niflheim.

Problems this week with Niflheim, San Graal, Raoul's Japanese pages, and Albus Lotus.

Received an email from Aron Peterfy in Hungary informing me that he still had a Hungarian link. Apparently www.tar.hu is accessible from Hungary as well, so I'll re-add those links soon.

Problems this week with Niflheim, Forgotten Tears, Searidge, the French mailing list site, and Albus Lotus.

Removed the link to the Ars Magica MUX, which is apparently dead. Also removed the links to Ars Magica for Vampire, and everything on www.tar.hu, which was all of our Hungarian links, so I've removed the link to that page from the front page as well.

Added a link to the Gaming Outpost Ars Magica Forum, as it is no longer the official Atlas web forum, but it is still active.

Added a description to Foxcourt and updated the link to Antiqua Natura. Thanks to the maintainers for letting me know.

Problems this week with everything on www.arsmagica.it, Forgotten Tears, Ars Magica for Vampire and www.tar.hu.

Removed the links to Merdegan's Sanctum, Marauder's Ars Magica Page, La Orden de Hermes, and Sanctum Hermeticum revisited.

Problems this week with Ars Magica for Vampire, Antiqua Natura, www.tar.hu, and Dearge Clach.

Oh dear, that was a really long gap between updates. No new links, which is one reason why it's been a long break.

Problems this week with www.tar.hu (as usual), Merdegan's Sanctum, Marauder's Ars Magica Page, Rho Phi Gamma, Antiqua Natura, Ars Magica for Vampire, and La Orden de Hermes.

Deleted the links to Bohemian Nights and Quercus Hermeticus, which seem to be really gone. Bohemian Nights was our only Portuguese resource, so I've dropped the Portuguese link from the front page. The pages still exist, though.

Removed the link to Black Sunrise, as the maintainer warned me that it was going to disappear.

Problems this week with Bohemian Nights, The Rest is Silence, www.tar.hu, Quercus Hermeticus, La Orden de Hermes, Ars Magica Moldensis, and Proditor.

Removed the link to The Academy, as the maintainer tells me it is gone due to lots of crashes at webrpg.

Problems this week at Ars Magica Moldensis, WebRPG, www.tar.hu, Walls of Pergamum, and Lance Dyas's Ars Magica pages. The last two will be removed if they are still gone next week.

Thanks to Neil Taylor for doing a web search and turning up most of those links.

Updated the links to Severn Temple and Merdegan's Sanctum. Thanks to the maintainers for letting me know.

Problems this week with Kermadem, Walls of Pergamum, DRoSI Ars Magica page, www.tar.hu, Epithranoi, Lance Dyas's Ars Magica page, and the Library of Evremere.

Updated and restored the link to Pawel Radecki's page. Please, if you see that I am am reporting problems with a page and know that it has moved and where to, let me know so that I can update the link.

Changed some links which were being forwarded automatically. It looks like Lycos bought up multimania, and, for the moment, multimania.com is being forwarded to their URLs. I've changed the links, because I don't suppose they'll tell me when they stop doing that.

Updated the link to Spiritus Draconis. Thanks to Andrew Gronosky for letting me know.

Deleted the link to Strona Pawa Radeckiego, as it seems to be gone. Also removed the link to Pelle Kofod's saga, which was our sole Danish resource, so I've removed the whole Danish directory. If we get more links in that language, I'll put it back.

Problems this week with Castellum Scopuli, Kulak Noch, the Ars Magica MUX on telmaron, Almagest, and Proditor.

Problems this week with Castellum Scopuli, Achivo de Aventuras de Ars Magica, and Strona Pawa Radeckiego.

Deleted the link to the WebCrawler Ars Magica links. It's no longer possible to link directly, and they have four links total, so there seems little point.

Problems this week with Ars Magica Moldensis, Marauder's Ars Magica page, and Strona Pawa Radeckiego.

Updated the link to Petra Bugati. Thanks to the maintainers for letting me know.

Deleted the link to Sol Invictus, as the maintainer has confirmed that it has gone.

Problems this week with www.tar.hu (again) and Strona Pawa Radeckiego, one of the Polish sites.

Problems with Ars Magica Moldensis, Antiqua Natura, and Sol Invictus. I've dug up the maintainer's email address for the last, so we'll see if it still exists. If not, it will go next week.

Added the Polish translation of the Polish pages. Thanks to Grzegorz Ruminski for this.

Problems with Woodelf's Archive, which is no longer where it was, Coyotewalker's Ars Magica page, Black Oak, Castalia, Sol Invictus, and everything on www.tar.hu. Could someone other than the maintainer please check that www.tar.hu is accessible from elsewhere on the net?

Deleted the links to Sanctus Trismegistus, Le Crete des Brumes (French), Darkwood, Ethos Manteon, Tales of Mythic Europe (Polish & English), Reaching Mountain, Gormaz (Spanish), Mynydd gan Brythwck, Mystic Halls, and Greendale.

Problems, which may be more temporary, with Isle of Innish, Woodelf's Archive, Ars Magica Moldensis, Marauder's Ars Magica Page, Sol Invictus, Tarn Crag, and Tumulus Tortilis. I still can't reach www.tar.hu (for example, the Hungarian mailing list archive), but the maintainer assures me that it is still there.

The long delay between updates was because I was on holiday in California. I'm back now, though.

Updated the links to Proditor and Dominare Serpentis. Thanks to the maintainers for letting me know.

Problems this week with Sanctus Trismegistus, Isle of Innish, Crete des Brumes (page not found, so it may be really gone), Darkwood, Ethos Manteon, Tales of Mythic Europe (it's worth reading the server message on this one -- enable Javascript or look at the page source), Reaching Mountain, Woodelf's archive, La Factoria de Ideas, Gormaz, Mynydd gan Brythwck, Mystic Halls, Greendale, everything on tar.hu, Bohemian Nights, Dearge Clach, Ars Magica Moldensis, and Sol Invictus. I don't know, I go away for a month and the whole net falls apart... Many of these links are probably really gone, and thus will get removed next week.

I am now the Ars Magica Line Editor. However, Project Redcap is still independent of Atlas Games -- I run it in my own time.

Updated the links to Foxcourt and the French mailing list. Thanks to the maintainers for letting me know.

Deleted the link to Duncorrie, as it seems to be genuinely gone. I emailed the maintainer of Crete des Brumes, and he said that he is looking into moving the page, so the link remains for the moment (althought the pages seem to be actually gone this week). GIDFA is over, after raising over $10,000, so that link has gone as well.

Problems this week with Crete des Brumes, Gormaz, Woodelf's Archive, Dearge Clach, Severn Temple, and everything on www.tar.hu.

Uploaded the Catalan translation of the Catalan page. Thanks to Bernat Guixeras for the translation.

Deleted the link to Misty Haven, as the maintainer has confirmed that it is gone.

Problems this week with Crete des Brumes, Duncorrie, everything on www.tar.hu, all the webrpg sites, including the Ars Magica forum, De Mirabilibus Mundi, La Factoria de Ideas, Albus Lotus, and Seasons of Mist. I am very tempted to delete the link to Crete des Brumes, as it seems insufficiently stable to be of use. Comments welcome.

Problems this week with Crete des Brumes, Gormaz, and Misty Haven. The Misty Haven problem looks serious. I'll delete the link if it is still problematic next week.

Problems this week with Crete des Brumes, Misty Haven, and the Hungarian links on www.tar.hu.

Deleted the links to Pactio Orbis Romanis, Vulcano and Cloudcastle, as they have really gone. Cloudcastle, at least, should come back at come point.

Problems this week with Crete des Brumes, Vulcano, Cloudcastle, Fall of Heaven, Pactio Orbis Romanis, and Bohemian Nights.

Deleted the links to Suffolk 1220 and Moonwoods, as those pages seem to be gone.

Added a link to GIDFA. This is the Gaming Industry Disaster Fund Auction, and is not, strictly speaking, an Ars Magica link. However, there will be a large number of unique gaming items available for auction, including some for Ars Magica. I encourage people to take a look.

Problems this week with Crete des Brumes (surprise), Moonwoods, Dearge Clach, and Suffolk 1220.

Problems this week with Bohemian Nights, Pawel Radecki's page, Corona Montis, Draconia, and Suffolk 1220. CJ promised to get Suffolk 1220 sorted out, but he hasn't yet (hint). Pawel Radecki's page seems to be really gone, and the link will be deleted next week if it hasn't reappeared.

The problems with www.redcap.org have gone on for too long, so I'm changing the official address of the site to redcap.org, which has always worked just fine. It looks like the previous owners of the domain did something daft with DNS settings, because the problem is that the old address sometimes (but not always) comes back from the routers. Please update any links you have.

Problems this week with Pawel Radecki's page, Albus Lotus, Corona Montis, Lance Dyas's homepage and Quercus Hermeticus.

I've sent an email to the contact I have for Dahmsa, to see whether it still exists. I've removed the link to Outremer, as that seems to be really gone.

Problems this week with Le Crete des Brumes (on the blink again), Albus Lotus, Blackmountain, Dahmsa, Outremer, and possibly Fall of Heaven -- the main page is just Schockwave or something, so I get no content from it at all.

Problems this week with Geocities (presumably a server problem), and with L'Alliance du Temps Jadis, Black Oak, L'Etoile D'Argent, Lance Dyas's Ars Magic Page, Downington, Thrakaia, Suffolk 1220, and Severn Temple.

www.redcap.org still isn't working properly. Don't know why, but this certainly isn't just slow propagation.

My excuse for the delay this time is that I was away on holiday, and before that there was a gaming convention to go to.

Lots of problems this week, a number of which look serious. Gerlac, Kermadem, Palimpsest, Paty, Silva Scientiae, Draconis, Sol Invictus, Aequitas, Downington, Tales of Mythic Europe, Marrach, Suffolk 1220, and Severn Temple.

www.redcap.org seems to be working now, at least sporadically. Could people let me know if they have problems connecting to that address, please.

I've also updated the search site to point at the new Redcap, so you will now search the right place. It is using redcap.org, rather than www.redcap.org, because the latter still hasn't propagated properly. I'm not sure what the problem is; http://redcap.org/ will get you to the site for the moment, but I would prefer links to point to www.redcap.org, on the assumption that it will be fixed eventually.

Problems this week with Thrakaia, RockCliff, Lance Dyas's Ars Magica Page, Fall of Heaven, and Pawel Radecki's Page.

First, thanks to David Czeck, Matthew Seidl, and Soraya Ghiasi for organising, paying for, and hosting, the new site at www.redcap.org. The long delay between updates is due to the server move.

Problems this week with Hermetic Magic in Dangerous Journeys, Nexx's Ars Magica Page, Le Crete des Brumes, RockCliff, and Lance Dyas's Ars Magica Page.

I deleted the links to Mythics Perspectives and Liber Amicorum, as Damelon has closed them down. I'd just like to publicly thank Damelon for all the excellent work he put into Mythic Perspectives over the years. It will be missed.

I also deleted the link to the RPG Japan Ars Magica forum, which seems to be truly gone.

Problems this week with Le Crete des Brumes, Abbey of St Simon, and Suffolk 1220. erzo.org is back. Huzzah!

Uploaded the Japanese and Hungarian translations. Please tell me if they look like gibberish, but shouldn't. Thanks to Ichikawa Akira and Péterfy Áron respectively.

Problems this week with the RPG Japan Ars Magica forum, Paty and Prospectus Locus et al. There were promising signs on the erzo.org front last week, so I won't delete them just yet.

Problems with Le Crete des Brumes, Prospectus Locus et al. (I may have to delete those links, alas), RPG Japan Ars Magica forum, and Tempora Heroica.

Again, lots of problems this week. Mythic Perspectives and Liber Amicorum have moved up to 'File Not Found', so the domain is back on a server. Other problems with The Rest is Silence, Le Crete des Brumes, L'Étendard du Loup, the Covenants of Montclair & Felsburg, New Scotland, Downington, the pages on erzo.org (Prospectus Locus et al.), the Japanese pages on trpg.net (including the Japanese Ars Magica project), Mynydd gan Brythwck, and Caer Bwganodd.

New Scotland and Montclair & Felsburg are both missing files. If New Scotland is still missing next week, I'll delete the link. (I don't have any contact information.)

Matthew Iskra's Ars Magica page is temporarily unavailable while he moves ISP. I'll replace the link once he's back.

I've uploaded the Norwegian translation of the index page. Thanks to Hans Georg Schaathun for that.

Problems with lots of sites this week. Mythic Perspectives and Liber Amicorum aren't back yet. Also missing are Le Crete des Brumes, Chrysokrata, New Scotland, Pactio Orbis Romanis, Pendragon, and Prospectus Locus et al. on erzo.org.

I've uploaded the Swedish translation of the index page. Thanks to Daniel Nordström for that.

Today I've been in charge of Project Redcap for five years, and it's time for a little reflection. The site has grown by about 215 links, and of the 250 or so listed links, over 99% are usually current. The site gets about 20,000 hits per year, so it's clearly of use to some people. The project is going strong; here's to another five years.

A purely negative update this week. I deleted the link to Darkland, because it appears to be truly gone. I also updated the links to Jerome Darmont's various pages. Thanks to him for the information.

This week's problems are with Mythic Perspectives and Liber Amicorum, Downington, Paty, Library of Evremere, Amarante, and Thaur's Ars Magica page.

Problems this week with Mythic Perspectives and Liber Amicorum (known issue, will get better with time), Valombreuse, Mercure, Darklands, Downington, Pawel Radecki's Page, and David Chart's Ars Magica Pages. I've checked with the maintainer of the last site, and he doesn't think it's a long term problem. Project Redcap is also down at the moment, so I can't check the counter reading.

Uploaded the Spanish translations. Thanks to Ezequiel Pozzo for these. (Please let me know if the non-ASCII characters display oddly. I'm getting odd results.)

I also did another reorganisation of the pages. The previous structure was not particularly easy to use if you didn't speak English. Everything is now split up by language, so that you can easily and quickly find links to sites in a language that you speak. People should feel free to link to one of the language indices rather than to the main index. I would also like people to translate the pages for their native languages into their native languages. If you are interested in doing this, please email me for instructions.

Separating them out means that I have a breakdown of number of resources by language. In first place is English, with 165. Hardly surprising. Second comes French with 34, then German with 20 and Spanish with 11. Fifth place goes to Japanese, with seven. Hungarian, with four, is sixth, while Norwegian, with three, is seventh. Italian, Polish, and Portuguese are joint eighth, with two each, and Danish and Swedish are joint eleventh, with one apiece. There are a total of twelve languages represented.

In simpler reorganisation, I've moved all of the twentieth century development news into the ancient history file, so that this file will download more quickly.

Because I've put the counter on all the index pages, the reading is likely to change by a different amount each week, so I've put today's reading in again.

Deleted the link to John Kasab's Ars Magica Archive; the people at the university have finally noticed that he left ages ago.

Problems this week with Mythic Perspectives and Liber Amicorum (again), the Darklands web site, and quite a few things on geocities, which apparently doesn't exist. Darklands may be a real problem.

Lots of problems this week. I think Demon's DNS must be having trouble. Non-DNS errors from La Combe à la Serpent, Animus Lupi, John Kasab's ArM Archive, and Corona Montis. DNS errors from (deep breath) Liber Amicorum, Inter-Saga Relations, Ars Magica Bergensis, Ars Magica Modensis, Calebais, Eiswald, Perfugium Aquilonis, Mythic Perspectives, Moonwoods, Pelle Kofod's Saga, Makt og avmakt, Pawel Radecki's page, Darkland, Oskari Koskimies's Archive, and La Factoria de Ideas. It looks like Scandinavia has fallen off the internet.

The netforward email forwarding is still broken, despite my email to them. So, I've changed the mailto links on these pages. Please let me know if I missed one.

Problems this week with Misty Haven, Le Crete des Brumes, and La Orden de Hermes. The last may be a real problem; the other two are probably just dodgy servers, as usual.

There have also been problems with netforward's mail forwarding this week, so that the Redcap@poboxes.com address has not worked. The web forwarding is still functioning, and I've contacted netforward about the problem. I hope it will soon be resolved.

Mindit are about to start charging webmasters $795 per year to have a Mind It button on their sites. So that service has gone. You can still sign up free of charge on your own account, though.

Problems this week with Coeris, Dearge Clach, Mad Irishman's Page, Misty Haven, Le Crete des Brumes, Dahmsa, and the Library of Evremere. The tendency of certain sites to show up repeatedly leads me to wonder if there's a 'flaky=yes' setting in apache.

Added a link to Suffolk 1220, and updated the links to Cliffheart, Corona Montis and Dragon's Twilight.

I've deleted the link to the Character Sheet Generator, as requested. The data was lost in a server crash; people should use SagaKeeper instead.

I've also deleted the link to Aedestera, which has been consistently absent for several weeks.

Problems this week with Character Sheet Generator (known issue, will purportedly recover), Dragon's Twilight, Le Crete des Brumes, Chrysokrata, Eiswald, and Aedestera. Aedestera has been problematic for some weeks now, so unless someone can confirm that it is still there, I'm inclined to delete the link.

This week there are problems with Character Sheet Generator, Seasons of Mist, Sanctus Trismegistus, Aedestera, and Animus Silvae.

Deleted the links to Twilight of the Order and Mario Gaida's Ars Magica page (although the latter will be back once the maintainer has found a new server).

Further problems this week with Isle of Innish, Character Sheet Generator, Library of Evremere, Misty Haven, San Graal, Le Crete des Brumes, Aedestera, and Cliffheart. These all look like they could be temporary.

I accidentally deleted the email with the details of the Ars Magica BBS someone set up a while ago. Could a kind soul resend me the details?

Deleted the links to Flamehill and Lux Septentrionalis, as their maintainers have told me that they are gone for good.

Problems this week with Twilight of the Order, Aedesterra, Mario Gaida's Ars Magica Page, and Machiavelli Games.

Deleted the links to Adlerstein and Geyersberg, as they seem to be permanently gone.

Problems this week with Flamehill, Castellum Scopuli, Misty Haven, Le Crete des Brumes, Fantasy Library Ars Magica Site, and Pelle Kofod's Saga. Misty Haven doesn't seem to like my link check program, and Crete des Brumes is on a very flaky server, so I suspect that they are both still there.

This week's serious-looking problems are Amarante and Black Sunrise. I've emailed the mantainers, so maybe they will come back. Haunted Springs, Adlerstein, and Geyersberg are still missing, but Varius said he was dealing with them, so I'll leave them up in the hope that they reappear. There were network problems with Misty Haven, Pactio Orbis Romanis, Le Crete des Brumes, Chrysokrata, and Dark Provencal/Englands Aufstehung.

This week, mordor.ch appears to have thrown all its files away: Haunted Springs, Adlerstein, and Geyersberg are all missing. I also had trouble with www.gnawing.com (apparently, it doesn't exist), and with Caer Bwganodd and Dhamsa. These all look like they are just net problems.

Problems with everything on erzo.org, which apparently has no DNS entry again (that's Shannon Appel's Ars Magica Pages, Prospectus Locus, The Covenant of St. Nerius, Nature's Teeth, and Vardian's Tomb). Amnis Mirabilis and Aedestera also have DNS problems. So does Mercury Rising, although A Measure of Sand (the other saga on nocturne.org) doesn't.

Disciples of the Black Moon is still gone, and I've had no response from the person who told me about the link, so I've deleted it.

Does anybody know whether the Spanish and Portuguese publishers of Ars Magica have web sites, and if they do, what the URLs are? I'd like to add links.

I reorganised the pages, and coverted them to be fully buzzword, er, standards compliant. For now, the old site is still available, but it isn't being maintained. [Deleted 11/3/01.] Please let me know if everything breaks horribly. Since I am now using style sheets, the formatting may not be terribly pretty on older browsers. I also officially dropped the colon from the site's name.

Added a link to Turris Nebulae, although the link didn't work today when I tried it. It was fine yesterday, though, so I'll give it a chance.

This week's problems are The Library of Evremere (still there, but I get an error page when I connect), everything on townhall.webrpg.com, which seems to have vanished (that's the WebRPG Ars Magica forum, Shadowlands, The Academy, and Foxcourt), Dearge Clach, A Measure of Sand, Mercury Rising, Disciples of the Black Moon, egroups (which no longer exists, according to the net), and Mario Gaida's Ars Magica page.

I've not deleted any links yet, because while A Measure of Sand, Mercury Rising, Disciplies of the Black Moon, and Mario Gaida's page have all been MIA for a while, things have changed. nocturne.org previously failed to exist at all: it now just doesn't have the pages on it. The same is true of devout.org. This may be result of a slow recovery from a crash, so they get another week's grace. Mario Gaida just has the permissions set wrong on his filespace, so that no-one else can read the pages. That might get fixed, so he gets a little grace. If there's no change by next week, though, they will go.

A little wondering... Ars Magica Fourth Edition has been translated into German, Spanish, and Portuguese, yet there are far more French links than any other non-English language. Why? Have I just not been informed of the dozens of German pages out there? If so, please let me know.

Netforward have changed the way webforwarding works, and the old link has stopped functioning. The new permanent link (well, permanentish) is http://www.poboxes.com/redcap/ I've taken the opportunity to change the real address as well. It is now http://www.dchart.com/Redcap/ There's a pointer from the old one, so nothing should break too badly.

This week's problems are Amnis Mirabilis, Coyotewalker's Ars Magica Page, Cliffheart, Mercury Rising, Uncle Wilf's Ars Magica Site, Mythtower, A Measure of Sand, Mario Gaida's Ars Magica Page, Disciples of the Black Moon, Le Crete des Brumes, and Flamehill. Coyotewalker, Mercury Rising, and A Measure of Sand were missing last time as well, so the links will go next time if they don't reappear.

I've also added a basic search facility, powered by Atomz.com. Thanks to Sheila Thomas for pointing me at this, and assuring me that it does the job properly.

I've deleted the link to Domus Argenteus, because it seems to be really gone. Last week's other two problems had merely moved.

Lots of problems this week. However, Demon has been having network trouble all weekend, so many of them may not be permanent. The problems are: Coyotewalker's Ars Magica Page, Machiavelli Games, Isle of Innish, Concilium Caviali (with a really funky error message), Lux Ex Tenebris, Mercury Rising, Dearge Clach, Pelle Kofod's Saga, Cloudcastle, A Measure of Sand, Black Sunrise, DRoSI Ars Magica page, and Pawel Radecki's Ars Magica page.

I should have added a link to the new French mailing list, and updated the link to Celidon, but with a little help from a crash I managed to delete the emails with the relevant information in. I'd be grateful if people could remind me.

This week's permanent-looking problems are Domus Argenteus, the Mad Irishman's Ars Magica Page, and El Heraldo de Hermes. Temporary looking problems occurred with Shannon Appel's Ars Magica pages, Vardian's Tomb, The Covenant of St Nerius, Prospectus Locus, Nature's Teeth (all on Shannon Appel's site), and Machiavelli Games.

Arabella seems to be really gone, so I've removed the link. The rest of last week's problems were temporary. This week, there are problems with Cliffheart, Corona Montis, Jerome Bianquis's page, Kulak Noch, Aedestera, Dark Provencal, and Atlas Games(!). These all look like web problems.

Last week's problems all came back. This week's problems are Concilium Caviali, Saga of the Broken Crown, Arabella, La Roche Caribet, Greyhawk, Ante Casu, and Eiswald. As La Roche Caribet is the saga I play in, I suspect that that page has not gone permanently.

This week's problem children are Misty Haven, The Rest is Silence, Seasons of Mist, Romuald Perinelle's Page, and L'Ecoute s'il Pleut. These all look like net problems.

Removed the links to the Broken Covenant (that didn't last long), Grimstone, Kermenen, and Delphes.

This week's problems are Ars Magica Moldensis, Corona Montis, Duncorrie, Cloudcastle, Misty Haven, and Pardium. Ars Magica Moldensis seems to be really gone, the others may be net problems.

Problems this week with Isle of Innish, Book of Days and Nights, Duncorrie, Reaching Mountain, Grimstone, Pardium, Tintagel PBEM, and Thrakaia. Grimstone may be really gone--the others look like net problems.

The reason for the long delay between updates is that I was on holiday, and had quite a bit to do just before going and just after getting back. Things should get back to normal now.

Almagest and The Rest is Silence are missing, due to the apparent non-existence of their servers.

All of last week's problem sites came back. This week, Almagest is AWOL, and www.fortunecity.de appears to have no DNS entry.

I deleted the links to Avilen, Libri Quaesitorum, and Coeris. Coeris seems to have taken its whole domain with it.

This week's problem sites are Corona Montis, Black Oak, icq.com, Mynydd gan Brythwck, Cloudcastle, Scholae Sagitarii, and Silva Scientiae. I suspect that these may be network problems rather than dead sites, however.

This week's problem sites are Avilen, The Libri Quaesitorum, and Coeris, again. Coeris's entire domain name seems to have vanished.

This week's random problem sites are the Darkland web site, Oculi Aeternam, Meryna, and Coeris.

Deleted the links to Tizzano, Characters Archive, and Through Darkest Night, as they are all confirmed gone.

Updated the links to Tonitruorum Fortium and Lux Ex Tenebris. Thanks to Neil Taylor for tracking them down.

This week's random problem sites are Corona Montis, Coyotewalker's Ars Magica Site, Vulcano, Library of Evremere, Coeris, and The Rest is Silence.

Characters Archive, Tizzano, Tonitruorum Fortium, and Through Darkest Night all seem to be gone. Lux Ex Tenebris is apparently on a server with a non-existent name (users.aol.com), as is Downington (www.torget.se).

Thanks to Neil Taylor for checking lots of problematic links, and occasionally digging up sites that I thought had been dead for months.

My link check program doesn't like Celidon or One Step Towards Infinity, but I've verified their continued existence. Otherwise, it looks like merely temporary problems.

Removed the links to Ars Historica, Arx Draconis and the Book of Nights, which have been persistently gone. Also removed the links to Lisbon and Lisboa; someone else appears to have taken over the pages, and they no longer have anything to do with Ars Magica. Thanks to Rolf Larsson for the information.

Celidon and One Step Towards Infinity are causing problems, and www.fdn.fr (L'Ecout S'Il Pleut) doesn't appear to exist. They'll go if I don't get confirmation that they still exist.

Vespers and the Concilium are still gone, and have been deleted. Ars Historica and Book of Nights seem to be gone.

Deleted the links to Thaur's Ars Magica Page and the Hungarian Mailing List archive. The computer has gone to Switzerland, apparently. They should be back at some point. The DRoSI Ars Magica page seems to be gone, as do Vespers and the Concilium. As usual, I'll wait for confirmation.

My copy of Heirs to Merlin arrived this morning. OK, that has nothing to do with Redcap; I just thought I'd mention it.

Paciscor is gone, and so, apparently, is absolutely everything on mordor.ch. I'm not entirely convinced about the latter; it feels more like a system glitch as it covers several accounts. So, they get a reprieve.

Deleted the link to Foedus Perferrorum. The permissions are set wrong on the server, so you (or at least I) can't get in. The DNS was remarkably good this week; everything showed up. One Step Towards Infinity generated an internal error, but I won't act on that unless it becomes persistent.

Updated the ICQ ActiveList number. Also added a link to Searidge, and put information on how to get the BerkList archives onto the mailing list page.

Deleted the link to Invocations, as the server seems to be gone. I've also been having trouble getting files for Foedus Perferrorum, although the file reputedly still exists. The DNS seems to be particularly flaky this week. However, the Inter-Saga Relations page has persistently been problematic, so that may go next time unless I hear different.

Added a link to the Ars Magica ICQ ActiveList. The necessary software doesn't seem to be available for the Mac, so I haven't been able to check this in person. I hope it works. Since this meant reorganising the front page a bit, I've moved the link to Mythic Perspectives there. A link to a sub page with one link on it was a bit pointless. Also added a link to Mynydd gan Brythwck.

Pax Magica is dead, so I've removed that link. The Wyrm's Tear is still gone, so I've removed the link, and I've been having persistent trouble connecting to Invocations. If I have trouble next time, that link will go as well.

The Fantasy Realms Journal page seems to be really gone, so I've removed the link. The Wyrm's Tear is also missing this week, but we'll see.

Added links to Thaur's Ars Magica Page and Darkland. I also added owner information to half a dozen pages. If people tell me which page is theirs, I'll do it for the others, as well. The maintenance sweep says that the Fantasy Realms Journal Ars Magica page has gone away. It also says that Geocities no longer has a DNS entry...

Added links to Pawel Radecki's Page and Chrysokrata. My maintenance sweep tells me that Nexx's Ars Magica page has gone, but I don't believe it.

Apart from net flakery, the maintenance check suggests that all the old links are still active.

I updated the link to Spiritus Draconis (thanks to the maintainer for telling me), updated the link to the DRoSI page (thanks to Neil and Varius for the new address), and removed the link to Stormwatch, which really seems to be gone. If you know different, do let me know. Coyotewalker's page came back, so that link is still there.

I'm going to have limited 'net access for the next two weeks, so the next update will be in September. I can still receive email for the Redcap, but I can't update the pages.

Coyotewalker's page, the DRoSI page, and Stormwatch are apparently gone. However, I'm going to wait and see if they're still gone next week before I bin them...

I've decided to keep a record of the counter reading when I make updates, so that I can get an idea of the level of use of the pages. The counter only counts you when you visit the front page, and it says 1769 at the moment.

Removed links to Gaillard, Les Cîmes d'Argent, Sanctum Arcana, Coeris, Malenstrom, and Silva Umbrosa. As usual, if you know that some of these are still up, please let me know.

Removed links to the Caste of the Globe, Tonitruorum Fortium, and Lupine Woods. Les Cîmes d'Argent may have gone, or Geocities may be flaking out.

Moved all the pages to my new web-space. I'll update the netforward link tomorrow, and the change should be more-or-less transparent. The advertising has all gone, so the pages should be faster. There's a counter on the main page, to give me an idea of how much Redcap gets used.

Email is still the same: this was why I set up with netforward in the first place.

Also removed the link to Val du Griffon, and sent out an appeal in the hopes that Ars Mag and all the other pages Eric Kouris was hosting haven't really vanished.

Added links to a German site and the Outremer Saga. Also, Shadowland's name has not existed for three consecutive sweeps, so it's gone.

Also, Lupine Woods is back. Thanks to Steve Saunders for the new address. That brings up a general point about the maintenance sweep. The program only checks to see whether pages are there. If someone puts up a page that just says "These pages have moved to...", the software thinks that that is the page. So, if you find strange things at the end of links, please let me know. Please also let me know if I've deleted something that has only moved.

I also did a maintenance sweep. I've found a wonderful piece of shareware that checks all the links for me (and gets locked out by geocities sometimes...), which means that these will happen much more often. Windhaven, Lydia's Archive, Ars Magica Net, Stonemuse, and Lupine Woods have all disappeared. I had trouble with a few others, but since I can now do this once a week I don't need to flag them.

Added links to the Fantasy Realms Journal Ars Magica page, Renaissance Ars Magica, and Ars Historica. Thanks to Jeremiah Genest for those links. I also added subscription details for the Ars Magica programmers' mailing list. (And details for the Italian Ars Magica mailing list were added in the big update last week.)

Reorganised the covenant links, so that all covenants are now grouped by Tribunal. Many thanks to Neil Taylor for doing virtually all the grunt work on this. In the process, a bunch of new links were added, and I decided to count sites in multiple languages as one resource per language. Thus, the number of links has jumped up quite sharply.

This brings us up to 141 links, which represents a net gain of over 100 links since I took over the site at the end of March 1996. Pretty good for a niche game.

A combination of holidays and network problems have made this update rather overdue.

I also did a maintenance sweep. Jagoop's Spells, Lydia's Archive (2), The Norwegian Ars Magica Archive, Morte Lune, and Circulus Aurum all seem to have gone. I've added (?) by links I couldn't reach: if you manage to, please let me know, because if I fail again, they will be deleted.

Added a link to L'Ecoute S'Il Pleut and updated a few other links. People seem to be getting quite good about that.

Deleted the link to Josh's archive, and updated a few other links. It is nice when people tell me these things.

Added a link to Duncorrie, and removed the link to Croeso i'r mi, because the maintainer actually told me that his web site was going away...

Added a link to the Norwegian Ars Magica Archive. Did a maintenance sweep, and removed the links to Scandinavian Role Players, Pierrevent, Christian Voltersvik's Archive, Mauri Sahlberg's Archive, Occulus Tempestatis, and Wyrm Puff's Ars Magica Page. I guess the maintenance sweep was a little overdue.

Changed the name of Jakob Bindslet's page to "Jagoop's Compilation of Spells", added links to Pont d'Ariege (in English and French), Paciscor, and RockCliff, and updated a couple of links.

I also deleted the geoguide from this page, because it was messing up the netmind notification. Basically, geocities sends out different HTML every time, so netmind thinks the page is constantly changing. You will now have to suffer through silly little pop-up windows and stuff, but at least the page will actually have changed when it says it has. If this fails to work, I'll put the guide back and complain to geocities...

Did a maintenance sweep. Domus Ebonrise, both Surge's Archives, and Celidon have all disappeared. I couldn't get into Pierrvent or the Hungarian mailing list archives, but they may still be there.

Added links to De Mirabilibus Mundi (E. Misc.) and Tumulus Tortilis (E Cov N-Z). Also updated the link to Severn Temple.

Added a link to the product history (English Misc), and updated the Rabenstein link.

Added a link to Shadowland (English interactive), and updated a couple of site descriptions.

Added a link to Calebais, which brings us up to 100 links! I never thought that we would get so many...

I've also added Linkexchange and GeoRewards banners to all the pages, and linked telmaron back to Geocities. This means that I don't have to upload the files twice every time I update and, more importantly, that even people who use telmaron will register on the banner exchange programs, so that ArM will get more publicity. If people absolutely hate this, please let me know, and I'll take the banners off (if enough people complain, anyway). I have no intention of adding them to the FAQ, or to any of my own archive pages.

Added a link to Machiavelli Games. Did a maintenance sweep and deleted the links to Ravenglass and Grunwald, as well as updating some other links.

Added links to Coyotewalker's site, Book of Nights, and Gaillard. Also updated the Pax Magica link, and some others.

Added lots of covenant descriptions, please send more. Also added links to Tarn Crag and Thrakaia.

Did a maintenance sweep: only one site down (Phoenix, ironically). Added links to the Scandinavian RP ring thingy and to the Inter-Saga co-operation mailing list.

Got back from holiday, and added links to Lisboa and Ars Magica Moldensis, as well as updating a few other links.

Added a link to Pendragon, and to the Ars Mag English page. I also updated a couple of other links, and put Geocities' new banner thingy on the pages.

Added a link to Wyrm Puff's Ars Magica page, and replaced the link to the Sanctum Hermeticum with one to the Liber Amicorum.

I've completely redesigned the pages today. For a start, I think that they are now all pure HTML 3.2, which should make them compatible with more browsers. I've also separated English and non-English links, and then split the English Covenant links in the middle of the alphabet. I hope that this will make it easier for people to use, mainly by making the individual pages a bit shorter.

Finally got the *long* overdue maintenance sweep done. Eternal Night has disappeared, as have Arcis Noctis and Stoneveil, but everything else is still there. Also added a link to the Ars Mag homepage and Eric Kouris's main Ars Magica page.

Added a link to Makt og avmakt, and the stuff about the Origins award. I'll try to remember to remove that when the deadline passes.

Added the form for setting the URL minder to tell you when I update this page. Thanks to Max Bariola for the suggestion.

Added a link to Web RPG's Ars Magica discussion forum. On the top page, since it's an active sort of thing.

Added a link to The Wyrm's Tear, and removed the link to Oculi Terrae. It's one year since I took over, now.

Added a link to Y'psoma tes Pnoes tou Pneumatos, which is, I think, the first Greek name for a covenant.

Finally got a maintenance sweep done. Black Mountain, Light in the Looking Glass, and Moonwoods have gone.

Added links to my Ars Magica pages (back on line), Flamma Aeterna, El Heraldo de Hermes, and The Marcher Saga.

Added a link to Lydia's Archive (1), updated some other links (including the Atlas one), and set up a couple of advertising things that might bring some more visitors to the Project.

Fun, fun, fun. Had all my web files deleted by the Trinity College computer officers because they changed policies. Thanks for the ample warning, guys. Anyway, I also started moving everything over to www.geocities.com, where hopefully things will be fairly stable. I can even hand the account over to whomever takes over the Project. I've also re-added a link to Arabella, and added a link to La Orden de Hermes.

I've also set up with netforward.com to point from http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?Redcap to the main site. This address should be permanent, as should the Redcap@poboxes.com email address. Of course, something will go wrong.

Did a maintenance sweep today, and deleted the links to Arabella and The Covenant of the Council of Four at Stormshaven. I couldn't get into Gormaz or Light in the Looking Glass, but the pages might still be there, beyond the net mists...

Reworked the top page, to include a MUSH page, and added a link to Eternal Night to that page. If we get another Ars Magica PBeM, I'll be able to start a PBeM page. Also updated the link to Coeris.

Added a link to The Dreaming. I also fixed a problem in the source which was making the links non-functional on some browsers. Hopefully this won't screw it up for everyone else.

Added a link to Domus Ebonrise. If links are coming in this fast *before* 4th edition comes out, what's it going to be like when it's here?

Well, the evil Cambridge Name Server decided to work today, so I finally got the maintenance sweep done. Coat Ar Bleizi and Eburacum have gone, and I've added a link to Christian Voltervsik's archive. All the links now work, apart from a couple with non-responding servers, although the Light in the Looking-glass may disappear soon as Eric is moving it.

Got back from holiday, and added links to Perfugium Aquilonis, Malenstrom, Stoneveil, Gormaz, and Seanarmha. It looks like Coat Ar Bleizi may be defunct, and it is likely to go in the next maintenance sweep.

Did a maintenance sweep. Had trouble connecting to a couple of places, and I need the new address for Thorendon, but the only pages that actually seem to be gone are the WotC Ars Magica pages.

Added a link to Lux Ex Tenebris. Not the covenant of the same name to which I deleted the link a while back.

Maintenance sweep time. I removed the links to Malenstrom, Durenmar, and Canticle's pages, which all seem to have gone.

Added comments to John Kasab's archive. Anyone else who wants comments on their entry should send me some. I also deleted the link to Serpens Mundi, as I have been told that it is going down.

The US mirror has also been moved. I'm just waiting for the directory names to be changed there, and then everything should work fine. I have access to this mirror, so it should stay up to date.

The main site of Project: Redcap moved to a new server, which should be more reliable. I have also redesigned the pages, hopefully making them easier to use.

Added a link to the covenant of Circulus Aurum. Of course, Luddite hasn't been up since I added Morte Lune, so both of these will appear together.

Added a link to the covenant of Morte Lune, which brings us back up to 30 Saga Archives.

Put the covenant of the Moonwoods back in, having been told that it does still exist.

Did a maintenance sweep, removing the links to Castellum Scopuli, Lux ex Tenebris, and Moonwoods. If any of these still exist, please let me know where. I also updated the name of the Mythic Crossroads to Durenmar: The Grand Tribunal.

Added links to Josh's archive and Stormview covenant. I would just like to point out that this is being efficient.

Set up the US mirror of Redcap. I'm still in charge, so comments that aren't to do with server operation should still be addressed to me.

Since Tintagel is still accepting players, I've moved it up into the top part of the page.

I've decided that there is no way that I can keep a descriptive index up to date, so all the comments have gone. I've done another maintenance sweep, and updated some links. I've also removed the Ars Magica News page, in the interests of keeping things simple. If you want news, subscribe to the list, or go along to Pax Magica and ask.

I've also re-organised a bit: links to things that you can participate in are now at the top of the page, with the FAQ and the link to Atlas.

I've gone and looked at the Saga archives, and tried to give some indication of size and what's there. People who object violently to my summary should send me a new one... These notes will get updated from time to time, I hope. If this proves to be impractical, I'll delete them. I'd just like to say that 'What's New' pages would make my job easier...

I've updated the link to Eric's Archive (now Mythic Crossroads), and found out what was wrong with the csua ftp site, so that should be back soon.

Today I've added two new links, and removed the link to the errata. They can now be found at the covenant of Occulus Tempestatis. There are over 40 links on the page, now.

Looking at the clock, I see that it is, in fact, tomorrow. I've been through all the links and updated those that went nowhere, as well as reorganising the page a bit. I've also put the link to WotC back, buried at the bottom of the page. In the near future, I plan to add brief contents descriptions to all the links, so that you have some idea what you are getting. Don't hold your breath for this, however. Any errors and omissions should be pointed out to me.

I (David Chart) took over the page, which means British dating conventions, and an update coming soon.

We added six entries in the last month. Deadfire Saga's _Concilium_ continues in _Concilium Nova_, Stuart W. has an archive that shows a lot of promise when it gets finished, and the Project wishes a warm welcome to Odyssey, Black Mountain, Thorendon and Malenstrom Covenants. 25% growth in one month is pretty amazing folks. Hats off to you.

Just got around to updating the News, which fell really behind. Of late, I've reversed the order of the News to new/old, at the greebling insistence of Andy Young. I've also split up the entries into Archives and Covenants in a somewhat arbitrary fashion. If you feel your Covenant is really an Archive, or vice-versa, write me a letter and I'll shuffle you to the proper spot. We broke 20 entries recently. Congrats, folks, the ArMfolk are champs. I've also tabled the idea of nifty formatting for the current little while due to time considerations, and because I don't think Project: Redcap needs to be fancy to do its job.

I also just (about ten minutes before I wrote this) added a link to Pax Magica, the new Ars Magica MU* still in the building, under the Interactive Environments header. Fell free to stop by and look around. Hopefully, ArM will have as many MU*s devoted to it as "The Wax Fang Game", but for now, Pax and, whenever WotC's technical staff feels motivated, Tela, will have to suffice. I will be glad to catalogue them all, though, when they come.

Added Wade's interview to the page and got all the others rolling. Working on a new Project: Redcap News topography for easier access and on putting in some snazzy but low-bandwidth formatting.

Added a link to Andy's FAQ 4.0, corrected some typos, added Lux Et Tenebris and fixed some links that had typographical problems.

I've put in a working link to the CSUA archive. There isn't a script to guide you along yet, but you can now get there from here, which is the point of this all. I've cleaned up the News functions and started to implement the New Model Redcap, as it were. Belin, watch your back.